Denver Wasteland

The Denver Wasteland was an area near the former location of Denver, Colorado, which was destroyed by a huge release of antimatter in 2055.

Formation and Effects
When Socialist One released the antimatter fuel of Eagle-Vail's nuclear reactor into cities throughout the free world, many areas were completely destroyed.

The Denver areas was hit particularly hard. The downtown area was completely obliterated, leaving only a crater. The sorrounding areas were burned by the fireball of the explosion, as well as as the nearby forests. A few scattered buildings remained, such as a few sturdy skyscrapers seen by Aveline Armstrong and Antoni Andrews when they first visited the area.

The city of Golden was protected from the blast to a degree from the hills in between it and downtown Denver. The city was ruined, but the area was clean of major radiation.

Many people outside of the blast radius were killed either by fires, shockwaves or spatial energy blasts that caused Wormhole Infusion Disorder. One such person was the so-called Late Man, who was delayed in reaching the Vail Biodome, a nuclear shelter in the area. He could not leave the area because of fires and anarchy, so he hid behind rubble near the door. There he succumbed to Infusion Disorder.

Modern Times
Denver was so hard hit by the Wormhole War that it remained deadly to travel through for a century. The crater was filled with sand from the many dust storms coming up from the South, and was turned into a desert.

Golden was rebuilt by refugees from Colorado Springs, mutated and mutilated by radiation. They built a crude wall around the city out of Army surplus steel plates, found in nearby warehouses. Over the years, natural selection removed the mutations that made the people weak, and enchanced the ones that enchanced the mutants. The people of Golden fought constantly with other mutated and "normal" factions in the area, and thus were highy militaristic and aggressive. They took extensive efforts to protect themselves from attack, and were suspicious of outsiders. Golden was the first place Aveline Armstrong and Antoni Andrews visited in the outside world.